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Summary

Handle any crisis situation with ease with A GUIDE TO CRISIS INTERVENTION! This practical nuts-and-bolts guide provides you with the skills necessary to effectively manage crises. Using the comprehensive ABC model of crisis intervention, this counseling text keeps you up-to-date on the latest information regarding crises. Case examples and scripts that show what to actually say provide you with actual examples of dialogue with the client illustrating the ABC model. Tables that outline key points such as history of crisis intervention, contributions, suicide assessment, and death and dying issues provide you with a framework in which to assess the client.

Table of Contents

What Is a Crisis?

1

(14)

Crisis Defined

1

(2)

Crises as Danger and Opportunity

3

(1)

Process of Crises

3

(2)

The Crisis-Prone Person

5

(1)

Other Determining Factors

6

(1)

Precipitating Events

7

(1)

Developmental Crises

8

(1)

Situational Crises

8

(1)

Subjective Distress

9

(1)

Coping Methods Fail

10

(1)

Key Terms for Study

11

(3)

Crisis Intervention

14

(15)

The History of Crisis Intervention

14

(4)

Contributions from Other Theoretical Modalities

18

(7)

Psychoanalytic Theory

18

(1)

Existential Theory

18

(1)

Humanistic Approach

19

(1)

Cognitive-Behavioral Theories

19

(1)

Family Systems Theory

20

(5)

Brief Therapy

25

(1)

Critical Incident Debriefing

25

(1)

The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention

25

(2)

Key Terms for Study

27

(2)

The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention

29

(34)

A: Developing and Maintaining Rapport

30

(8)

Attending Behavior

32

(1)

Questioning

33

(2)

Paraphrasing

35

(1)

Reflection of Feelings

36

(1)

Summarization

37

(1)

Key Terms for Study

38

(1)

B: Identifying the Problem

38

(17)

Identifying the Precipitating Event

42

(1)

Recognizing the Meaning/Perception of the Precipitating Event

43

(1)

Identifying Subjective Distress and Functioning Level

43

(1)

Making Ethical Checks

44

(1)

Mental Status Exam and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

45

(3)

Substance Abuse Issues

48

(6)

Key Terms for Study

54

(1)

C: Coping

55

(8)

Exploring the Client's Own Attempts at Coping

55

(1)

Encouraging the Development of New Coping Behaviors

55

(1)

Presenting Alternative Coping Behaviors

56

(2)

Commitment and Follow-up

58

(1)

Key Terms for Study

59

(4)

Ethical and Professional Issues

63

(11)

The Need for Ethics

63

(1)

Use of Paraprofessionals

63

(1)

Self-Awareness and Countertransference

64

(1)

Dual Relationships

65

(1)

Confidentiality

65

(2)

Elder Abuse Reporting Act

66

(1)

Child Abuse Reporting Act

66

(1)

Informed Consent

67

(1)

Supervision and Training

67

(1)

Burnout and Secondary Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

68

(4)

Definitions of Burnout

68

(1)

Symptoms of Burnout

69

(1)

Causes of Burnout

69

(1)

Prevention of Burnout

70

(1)

A Study of Community Crisis Workers

70

(2)

Key Terms for Study

72

(2)

When Crisis Is a Danger

74

(17)

Suicide

75

(11)

Symptoms and Clues

76

(1)

Suicide Assessment

77

(1)

A Phenomenological Look at Suicide

78

(2)

Suicide Prevention

80

(2)

Interventions

82

(4)

Managing a Client Who is a Danger to Others

86

(2)

Psychotic Breakdowns and The Gravely Disabled

88

(2)

Key Terms for Study

90

(1)

Developmental Crises

91

(17)

Evolutional Crises

96

(2)

First Stage of a Family: Creating a Marital Subsystem

96

(1)

Creating a Parental Subsystem

96

(1)

Creating Sibling Subsystems

97

(1)

Creating Grandparental Subsystems

97

(1)

Situational Crises Related to Adolescence

98

(4)

Teen Pregnancy

98

(1)

Gangs

99

(1)

Runaways

100

(2)

Crises of Old Age

102

(3)

Alzheimer's Disease

102

(2)

Elder Abuse

104

(1)

Key Terms for Study

105

(3)

Cultural Sensitivity in Crisis Intervention

108

(31)

The Role of Ethnicity and Gender on Help-Seeking Attitudes

109

(1)

Development of Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapists

109

(2)

Latinos

111

(6)

Mexican American Families

112

(1)

Mexican American Cultural Patterns

113

(1)

Issues Related to Different Rates of Acculturation

114

(1)

A Comparison of Mainstream Culture Values and Latino Resistance in the Mental Health Field